Road-cart



(No Model.)

W. WHITAKER.

ROAD CART. No. 859,912. Patented Mar. 1887.

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UNITED STATES WELCOME lVI-IITAKEB,

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SPECI PICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 359,912, dated March 22, 1887.

Application filed May 26, 1886.

.To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, Wntoonn WHITAKER, of Goshen, in the county of Elkhartand State of Indiana, haveinvented anew and Improved Road-Cart, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The object of my invention is to provide a cheap and comfortable road'cart, and one that may be easily mounted, owing to the peculiar arrangement of the seatsnpporting bars.

Referenceis to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar figures of reference indicate corresponding parts in both the figures.

Figure 1 is a partly-sectional side viewof a road'cart constructed in accordance with the terms of my invention, the section being taken on line a: as of Fig. 2; and Fig. 2 is a sectional front view taken on line y 3 of Fig. 1.

Referring now to the general construction illustrated in the drawings, 101s the axle. 1 1 11 are the wheels; 12, the thills, the rear ends of which are rigidly connect-ed to the axle 10 in the manner indicated, the thills being braced by rods 13, that are arranged as shown. The main crossbar of the chills is shown at 14, and is rigidly connected to said thilis in the position indicated, and braced by a curved bar, 15, which bar is fastened to the thills and to the forward face of the crossbar let.

Beneath the cross-bar 1.4, I mount a spring, 20, said spring being held to the crossbar by clips 21. To each end of the spring there is secured an inverted-U stirrup, 22, and each of these stirrups is provided with a shackle, 23, said shackles serving as the supports for the seat-carrying bars 25, the forward ends of said bars being pivotally connected to the under side of the thills through the medium of conplingeyes 2% and shackles 26, said shackles being provided with two or more apertures, 2,

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so that the seat 30, which is carried by the rear end of the bars 25, may be adjusted as desired. The bars 25 are practically straight from their forward ends to a point just behind the shackles 23-that is, to a point, 8. At this point 3 the bars are bent upward, to be again bent toward the rear at the point 4. Each of these bars carries a rod, 27, and the two rods serve as the supports for the cross slats- 28, which constitute the bottom of the cart, and serve as a foot-rest for the occupant. Upon the axle 10 there is a step, 31.

Such being the general construction of the cart, it will be seen that it may be entered M without the necessity of climbing over any seat-supporting bars.

Although I have described my invention as applicable to carts having full springs, it will of course be understood that halfsprings could be used without departing from the spirit of my invention.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-- In a road-cart, the combination, with the axle and thills rigidly secured thereto, of the cross-bar 14, secured on the upper side of the thills, the curved bar 15, secured to the thills and the said crossbar, the seat-carrying bars adj ustably pivoted to theunderside ofthethills by the eyes 24 and shackles 26, the spring 20, seen red to the under side of the bar 14, the stirrups 22 on the ends of the spring, and the shackles 23, for securing the stirrups to the seatbars, substantially as herein shown and described.

WELC-OME XVHITAKER.

Witnesses:

HARRY HUroHrNsoN, RUssELL Memos. 

